iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jviide.iki.fi @jviide.iki.fi · 23/09/2026

Claude Code explaining why it changed three files.

A pale fish (?) with a large round sac. A Wikipedia-style caption reads: "The horngus of a dongfish is attached by a scungle to a kind of dillsack (the nutte sac)", followed by citation [77].

Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 13/09/2026

I'm a little late, but I really enjoyed this year's Freiburg edition of @smashingconf.com. A big thank you to everyone involved; the team and organization were fantastic, and I feel really thankful for having gotten to meet so many amazing humans 😍 Can't wait for next year!

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 07/09/2026

Had an absolute blast at the @smashingconf.com Jam Session today! So many awesome people 🥰The conference starts tomorrow and it’ll be 💯

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 28/08/2026

I refreshed my website home, and with it comes the ability for you to add custom stickers to the homepage ✨ decorate away! nik.digital

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 25/08/2026

Hendrik's work on this has been amazing. I'm hosting my own instance and the setup was literally "run it". Incredibly well done!

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 21/08/2026

I recently saw a friend set up their atproto account and realized how confusing the whole system is. I wish atproto had a much better cross-app login experience. Is there any work being done to unify/improve the UI/UX of the login flow? I think I recall seeing some ideas but I can't find them.

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 11/08/2026

This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 03/08/2026

I'm working on my website and need some icons! Do I know anybody (or someone who knows somebody) who can create cute cartoon-artsy / "kawaii style" icons? (think a laptop, book, etc) and has availability? Would love some recommendations 😊

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 02/08/2026

Two weeks ago I wrote about my development workflow for Chatto, and feedback has been fantastic. I'm particularly happy that it even made some of my AI hating friends go "okay, that's actually quite cool". We need to write more about our actual work, and in less of a preachy AI-salesperson voice.

hmans.dev

Chatto is Robots

Chatto is built with agentic engineering. Here's my workflow.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 30/07/2026

I said it there but want to share: For most projects and people, atproto is an implementation detail, not a feature. If we as a community want widespread adoption of our tech, we need to move away from the jargon and offer something for non-technical folks.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 24/07/2026

So, I built a small app that tracks all Hacker News submissions over time, and allows you to set up custom triggers and basically curate your own daily summary. After using it for a few weeks, I am not sure what to make of it. Would this be interesting to anyone else? Happy to invite you to it :)

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 19/07/2026

TIL the German weather service is on Bluesky. Awesome!

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dan @danabra.mov · 13/07/2026

i want to do a little ✨ ama about atproto ✨ in this thread. no question is too simple if you’ve been curious about atproto but don’t know much (anything?) about it, ask any question and i’ll try to explain it in my own words. (+ would love to hear from friends who aren’t very active on bsky)

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 13/07/2026

small login form details, just because I think it's cute :)

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 12/07/2026

had the same happen when I moved PDS. This experience can be much better!

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 10/07/2026

i love quirky stuff like this! well done

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 08/07/2026

I appreciate the distinction!

A screenshot of a Bluesky notification:

"Alex Karp (not the CEO) followed you"

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 08/07/2026

Wonderful article on (the end of?) reading, writing, social media, AI, learning, thinking, the state of politics and more. "Writing is the way people figure out what they think, and how to convey those thoughts to someone who doesn’t already share them." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 07/07/2026

Writing this on @mu.social after migrating my data to @eurosky.social PDS. I realize this is a nerdy gimmick, but the fact that it is possible at all is cool as hell. Love to see the atproto environment gain more options.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 05/07/2026

Alright! It is done! Finally made a GitHub app for AgentScan so you can just install it, select your repositories, and more easily keep automation lovers out of your projects. Give it a spin and drop me some feedback on GitHub

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AgentScan - GitHub Automation Detector

An open experiment in detecting automation patterns on GitHub

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 03/07/2026

Had to check in for a flight today and the site kept saying "Unexpected Error" when I tried to enter my data. Got a React error in the console saying "maximum update depth exceeded". I was able to check in by typing more slowly. I guess only web developers are allowed to check in online 😅

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 01/07/2026

A thing I want to point out about this is that I think it's a great use case for LLMs. It's a small-ish thing, one off, just for myself. Previously I would have thought about it but never done it. Now it only takes a few minutes. As bad as AI is in many cases, there are genuinely good use cases.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 01/07/2026

Seeing this month's "who is hiring" post on HN, I had a fun idea to visualize the data points over the years as I expected them to be a nice visualization of the current market in tech. Earlier this year was the first month ever in which less people posted jobs than wanted to be hired 🫠

A graph showing the relation between job-seeker posts and job posts on HN per month since 2014 (seeking divided by offering). The ratio between seekers and offers was about 0.4ish for a few years, briefly peaked to about 0.9 in 2020 before dropping back down, and sharpy started rising again in 2023, with the highest ever ratio of about 1.2 last month.

The graph shows two lines, one for offers and one for seekers. Job postings have noticably gone down and seekers up, with the lines crossing for the first time ever this year (more seekers than offers).

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 28/06/2026

Great, Chat Control is back! 🙄 I'm so fucking sick of the EU trying time and time again to pass this bullshit legislation instead of focusing on important stuff, but here we are. If you are in the EU, I once again urge you to contact your MPs. www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-th...

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“Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu

Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented "double-attack" on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday and Monday EU meetings. Ahead of a highly critical weekend for digita...

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 18/06/2026

I've made a Kubernetes that runs in the browser, and today we're open sourcing it. The hope here is to make super interactive and visual web content about Kubernetes much easier to write, and we have a whole bunch planned this year. Repo: github.com/ngrok/webern... Demo: webernetes-demo.ngrok.app

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 12/06/2026

Working on creating a demo visualisation of my Kubernetes cluster that runs in the browser. Just got network visualisation working. Each image is its own actual bit of running code using a fetch-like API to talk to other pods, and the network emits events when this happens.

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Vale @vale.rocks · 11/06/2026

Browsers on video game consoles have long been a majorly underdocumented topic. That changes today with my latest article, which I can confidently say is the most comprehensive game console browser coverage on the entire web. I'd love for you to give it a read: vale.rocks/posts/game-c...

vale.rocks

Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles

A comprehensive history of web browsers on video game consoles. From the CD-i to modern systems, exploring the evolution of the web on consoles in detail. Covering bespoke iterations, releases by PlanetWeb and NetFront, contemporary engines across Sega, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox platforms, and other details.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 08/06/2026

Heureka! They fixed the absolute dumpster fire macOS Tahoe design

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 06/06/2026

hey, why’d nobody tell me about the road trip

The front of a bus with the label „BlueSKY“ on it

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 05/06/2026

I set up Uptime Kuma on my NAS to monitor some sites but instead of detecting their downtime I now have a very detailed log of my ISP outages

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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 31/05/2026

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 31/05/2026

The existence of seafood implies the existence of landfood

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/05/2026

I wrote about the Victorian history, physical sensor mechanisms, and networked logic of traffic lights! This is the fifth installment in the "How The Heck" series, following QR codes, GPS, Shazam, and solar panels. Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-traffic-lights-work

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.

A photo of a Dell laptop screen taken between two train seats. The screen has a training video with the text "You never know who's sitting next to you" showing on it. The picture taker is sitting behind the person taking the training, so it's OK.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 24/05/2026

off to a few days on a motorbike adventure without much tech around. Kind of wish I had my RFCs printed for the evenings but then again maybe I can use a few days without reading specs 😂

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 22/05/2026

These things are more encouraging than people think, especially today. Let folks you if you like their work 💯

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 21/05/2026

The @npmx.dev timeline feature is so genius. Makes me so happy to see these green checks on my packages. It also helped me discover that a dependency of mine went from 49 to 139 dependencies in a single update, which I'd have totally missed otherwise ❤️

A screenshot of the npmx timeline section. It reads:

3.0.0 Latest
[Check] Trusted publishing enabled
[Check] Provenance enabled

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 19/05/2026

My next blog post will be on the DNS and how it works in depth. Lots of articles only scratch the surface, but in this one I will try to pull it all together into one coherent deep dive 😀 Might be a while, though...

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 07/05/2026

Question for the atproto folks on here: Can it even support business logic like "editing a post, but only for 30 minutes"? It looks as if that could only be done on an app level, so users would always be able to modify data on their PDS. Seems like a big limitation to be aware of?

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 05/05/2026

My next "how the heck?" piece is live, and it's all about solar panels! It interactively covers the physics, infrastructure, and economics of solar energy in (hopefully) an approachable way. I learned a ton working on it and hope you have fun looking through it. perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

An interactive chart showing how efficient different band gaps are at converting to electricity

2D and 3D rendering of covalent silicon bonds

A flow chart showing how your solar panel hooks up to the grid

The duck curve for solar, which measures the difference between solar energy generation and net demand

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 06/05/2026

I created a collection of my favorite daily minigames around the web! If you know more, please add them to the list 😍 github.com/NikxDa/aweso...

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GitHub - NikxDa/awesome-daily: A curated list of awesome daily minigames and puzzles.

A curated list of awesome daily minigames and puzzles. - NikxDa/awesome-daily

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 03/05/2026

I‘ve been contemplating moving my site from Next to Astro. Has anybody done this and has some tips?

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